[Childcare] Ocean-themed craft ideas! From wall displays to 3D projects

Sea creatures made with paper chain links

Ocean-themed wall decor with paper chain rings for summer #shorts

Let’s use paper chains like the ones you see at birthday parties to make sea creatures! You can create animals using only paper chains, or use them as parts of your creations.

When used as parts, they can become the tentacles of octopuses, squids, or jellyfish, seaweed, or even fish scales.

By getting creative with how you link the loops, you can make starfish or shells using just paper chains, too.

Depending on the age group, it’s also a great idea to have the children help make the chains.

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Let’s make sea creatures out of scrap materials

[5-year-olds] Let the children’s imaginations run wild! Let’s make sea creatures out of scrap materials!

Crafts made from recycled materials are a great way for kids to casually engage with eco-friendly practices and the SDGs! Try combining everyday recycled items—like empty tissue or snack boxes, gashapon capsules, cardboard, and wrapping paper—to create sea creatures.

An empty box can transform into a big fish, and wrapping paper can become beautiful fish scales—there are countless ways to use them.

Of course, you can also mix in construction paper or origami.

If everyone sticks their creations onto a large sheet of poster paper imagined as the sea, you can bring an ocean right into your room!

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A Sea of Bleeding Colors

Let’s try expressing the ocean using the bleeding painting technique.

Prepare a sheet of rice paper, draw freely, and simply mist it with a spray to make the colors bleed—that’s it! It’s a very simple project, but spraying together with the children will really liven things up.

It’s a creative idea where the process itself is fun.

In addition to blue and light blue, have green and purple pens ready to broaden the range of expression.

Display the artwork in the classroom or at the entrance so many people can enjoy it.

Feel the sea together with the children!

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A sea picture made with stamps

Drawing: Let's Paint the Ocean ♪ [kids play]

Combine different stamps to create the ocean! Prepare a sheet of drawing paper with a basic ocean scene or use blue construction paper, then start stamping on top.

For stamps, you can use dabbers, eraser stamps, any store-bought stamps, or even handprints, footprints, and fingers.

By getting creative with how you stamp and combine them, you can depict sea creatures, seaweed, and more.

It’s fine to just press stamps freely, so even younger children can enjoy it easily.

Display the children’s originality-filled artworks in your room and immerse yourselves in an ocean world.

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